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I worked at a boutique law firm after getting my JD / LLM for a short period of time before jumping to WNT.
Thank you, that’s helpful. Did you have connections at WNT that allowed you to make the jump?
I graduated in 2009 and getting a law firm job was nearly impossible. Even a lot of the folks that got them got deferred. So I took the Big 4 job because I didn’t have many other options. I joined the regular tax group and did that for 2 1/2 years and basically hated it (but was still a top performer getting the highest rating). I ended up working with someone in NTD and saw an internal job posting for it. I asked about it and ended up it actually wasn’t supposed to be open and was for someone else that was applying or something. I ended up talking to some of the partners I had worked with and they talked to some people behind the scenes and I got some interviews. The people liked me and I joined the group. I ended up getting early promoted twice, spent 7 years at the SM level and just made principal this year. I love my job and the people I work with. I do wonder what things would have been like if I joined Big Law instead, but my wife did that and many of my friends and they all burned out pretty quickly - I’m happy where I am and make plenty of money and get to spend a ton of time with my family, so no complaints.
P1, good to know. I figured it must be something like that. There are never any posted job openings for the WNT group. I have a tax LLM from NYU and my firm didn’t recruit for WNT positions during TIP, although some seem to get into WNT directly from an LLM program. So networking seems to be the only way to get there. However, isn’t that still “taking top performers away”? It’s all a bit silly, like so many other things in professional life.
I forgot to mention I went to a top 25 law school and had undergrad degree in business.